Oral Histories

Below is a selection of wav files from our Oral History Collection

Coming to Kent

• SR27-1 Move to Kent
• SR40-1 to Kent

Sport

• SR75-3 Bowling Snowdown
• SR75-3 Playing football Snowdown
• SR75-3 Semi-pro footballers 50's
• SR75-3 Three pits run

The Community

• SR15-1 Duties of miners wife
• SR15-1 Night shift quiet children
• SR15-2 Social club Ramsgate
• SR40-1 Elvington ashy tip sledging
• SR40-1 Houseproud
• SR40-1 Miners daughter
• SR40-2 Sense of community
• SR65-1 Miners child
• SR75-1 Memory of mother and panikity
• SR75-1 Perception of self as miners child
• SR75-1 Women gossiping
• SR75-1 Bows and arrows
• SR75-2 Social 1950's
• SR75-3 Safety of Aylesham and honesty
• SR75-3 Sense of community and memory
• SR75-3 Tunnel vision in Aylesham
• SR75-4 Buying on tick
• SR75-4 Mother working the fields
• SR75-4 Women 1984 strike
• SR76-1 Every mother mine

Work

• SR10-1 Asleep in pit
• SR15-2 First day
• SR15-2 Never seeing daylight
• SR15-2 Purpose of pits
• SR15-2 Work and bed
• SR37-1 Chewing tobacco
• SR37-1 Making and wearing clogs
• SR37-1 Playing tricks
• SR37-1 Snap time
• SR37-2 Mice
• SR40-1 Job at Coalboard offices
• SR65-2 Duties of Undermanager
• SR65-2 Underground
• SR75-2 Butty system Snowdown
• SR75-2 Description of Pan turning
• SR75-2 Discipline on pit bottom the corporal
• SR75-2 Job on haulage and communal spirit
• SR75-2 Loading 60-40 system
• SR75-2 Screens
• SR76-3 Wages 1940's Durham Kent

WWII

• SR40-1 Food during WWII
• SR40-1 Restricted area WWII
• SR40-1 WWII enemy fire Elvington
• SR75-3 Betteshanger and Snowdown rugby